Pres Hinckley says earlier leaders asked about this. But it makes one wonder if Wilford Woodruff and Lorenzo Snow really felt the need to pray specifically for this. If those early leaders and their Quorums of 12 really fasted and prayed for it, could it have hastened the time?
Did the Lord really need the social climate of the US to mature before it was time to do this?
Were we really that good at forensics as to distinguish between blacks of Africa and Brazil as "seed of Cain", but blacks of Polynesia, parts of Mexico and I'm sure other areas as not seed of Cain?
What was the point of withholding the priesthood from Cain's seed for so long and now restoring it? Was it to teach a lesson, and was said lesson finally taught and understood?
I don't have a clue why, and it seems a little arbitrary to me to withhold from them; and likewise the gospel of Christ from the gentiles and world and any non-Jew until Peter's vision of the beasts. But I personally think that part of the timing was social conditioning. The original Israelites were not able to enter the Promised Land of Canaan, presumably because they always struggled with a desire to return to Egypt. Moses was never able to take Egypt from their hearts, so they waited a generation that didn't know Egypt and brought them in. (A lot of good that ended up doing them, however)
I think there was still so much animosity and prejudice of race in society and our culture. So, I think God waited for us to mature and start to address and correct those issues.
Even tho we're Mormons, we're still only human with all the Natural Man and societal influences that come along with it.
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Another good question.
No answers here.
Pres Hinckley says earlier leaders asked about this. But it makes one wonder if Wilford Woodruff and Lorenzo Snow really felt the need to pray specifically for this. If those early leaders and their Quorums of 12 really fasted and prayed for it, could it have hastened the time?
Did the Lord really need the social climate of the US to mature before it was time to do this?
Were we really that good at forensics as to distinguish between blacks of Africa and Brazil as "seed of Cain", but blacks of Polynesia, parts of Mexico and I'm sure other areas as not seed of Cain?
What was the point of withholding the priesthood from Cain's seed for so long and now restoring it? Was it to teach a lesson, and was said lesson finally taught and understood?
I don't have a clue why, and it seems a little arbitrary to me to withhold from them; and likewise the gospel of Christ from the gentiles and world and any non-Jew until Peter's vision of the beasts. But I personally think that part of the timing was social conditioning. The original Israelites were not able to enter the Promised Land of Canaan, presumably because they always struggled with a desire to return to Egypt. Moses was never able to take Egypt from their hearts, so they waited a generation that didn't know Egypt and brought them in. (A lot of good that ended up doing them, however)
I think there was still so much animosity and prejudice of race in society and our culture. So, I think God waited for us to mature and start to address and correct those issues.
Even tho we're Mormons, we're still only human with all the Natural Man and societal influences that come along with it.
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